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Priceline Reviews Summary

The overall reputation of the company reveals significant dissatisfaction among customers, primarily due to issues with booking accuracy, hidden fees, and inadequate customer service. Many reviews highlight frustrations with non-refundable reservations and uncommunicated changes, leading to feelings of being misled. While some customers appreciated the initial pricing, the subsequent hidden costs and lack of support during disputes overshadowed these positives. A recurring sentiment is a lack of accountability from the company, prompting numerous customers to vow never to use the service again. This feedback indicates a critical need for improved transparency and customer support practices.

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service
710
value
667
shipping
280
returns
440
quality
588

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California
91 reviews
225 helpful votes
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I have gotten a few rental cars for cheaper than other sites by using the priceline negotiator. Also, they sometimes have hotels or smaller B&Bs that I don't seen on the large sites, like expedia.

Date of experience: April 21, 2014
PS
5 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Priceline was one of the first players in discount travel, and there is a reason it continues to be among the top players in the industry. The ability to "name your price" can save an enormous amount for those customers who have significant flexibility on flight times and airline selection. When finding the absolute lowest price for a ticket is paramount, Priceline delivers.

Date of experience: April 20, 2014
Ohio
1 review
1 helpful vote
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We used priceline for a Hotel. Guest Inn in Nashville. The Hotel was nothing like the "comparable hotels". It was dirty, the toilet was broke, holes in the sheets, stains on the carpet, no hot water and no maid service.
To make things worse, the hotel even charged us a second time and still hasn't fixed it. I will get it fixed through my credit card company.
Priceline did very little to help and shouldn't do business with hotels like this.
Buyer beware. All Priceline wants is to make money and not deliver quality.

Date of experience: April 9, 2014
Oregon
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Like everyone one else, I've had more problems than success with priceline. This concerns the Resort Fees. If priceline would disclose them in the total charges page before your purchase the room those charges wouldn't be so deceptive. Now all they do is include a note I. The fine print about the Resort Fees. Dealing with customer service is like talking to a brick. But I think a brick might answer.

Date of experience: April 7, 2014
Colorado
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is the worst travel agency in the world. The customer service is super lazy to help customer. Before you do business with this horrible website, make sure you put this in mind. I will tell all my friends and family to keep away from this terrible business.

Date of experience: April 7, 2014
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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If you get involved with these people it could be the worst experience of your life

Date of experience: April 7, 2014
Pennsylvania
22 reviews
18 helpful votes
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I've been using them for about 10 years & always save something. Mostly on hotels, but I've gotten great deals on rental cars too. I spent 2 nights at a Park Inn by Radisson this week. The hotel web site wanted $116/night. I did the name your own price thing. Priceline suggested I bid $89/night. I took a chance & low balled them with a bid of $49/night & was awarded the room, at a savings of $134 for a 2 night stay. I don't always get such a substantial savings through them, but when I do it keeps me going back. Besides, Kaley Cuoco is hot as hell!

Date of experience: April 5, 2014
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Cancelled reservation and they refused to refund money. I strongly do not recommend using them

Date of experience: April 4, 2014
New Jersey
2 reviews
9 helpful votes
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I've used Priceline a few times in the past and had a couple of less than stellar results. I would NEVER use it for anything other than SAME DAY service. They have ridiculous policies and lousy customer service.

Date of experience: March 17, 2014
Virginia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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In summary, I cannot get a real customer service employee of Priceline on the phone to help me, just people who do a fine job a reading scripts. Any company who cares about customer service and the way they are percieved would at least consider my situation and have a discussion about it instead of having contractors read me a script that doesn't quite apply to my issue. Because of the bad experience with PRICELINE and my wasted energy, time, and money I will not reccomend anyone book through them, unless you don't mind risking booking / payment issues that may never be resolved.

Date of experience: March 15, 2014
Delaware
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Worst customer service ever. I used the name your own price and got a hotel in a lower level than what I asked (based on THEIR guide). 40 minute call with rude "customer service" people just made it worst. If you use it, be advised that you will likely get a hotel that is not as good as advertised.

Date of experience: March 11, 2014
California
2 reviews
4 helpful votes
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THERE IS 2 CHOICES TO PICK FROM WHEN BOOKING ON PRICELINE FOR THE NUGGETT IN RENO. 1. IS 39.00 FOR THE BASIC NON UPGRADED ROOM 2. IS 52.00 FOR A 500 SQ FOOT ROOM AND MOUNTAIN VIEWS. I HAPPENED TO CALL THE NUGGETT TO ADD MARCH 7TH. WE WERE COMING A NIGHT EARLY. I WAS INFORMED ALL OF THE ROOMS ON THE WEST TOWER WERE THE SAME THERE WERE NO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE 2 ROOMS AND 2 DIFFERENT PRICES AT ALL! AFTER 3 PHONE CALLS AND SPEAKING WITH JASPER HE CALLED NUGGETT AND WAS TOLD I WOULD BE IN THE ROOM I PAID FOR. WELL YES THAT IS TRUE I SUPPOSE BUT THERE IS NO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THOSE 2 PRICE POINTS NO DIFFERENCE! I THOUGHT I WAS PAYING FOR A ROOM A SLIGHT BETTER. IF I WOULD HAVE PUT MY DOT ON 39.00 I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE SAME ROOM. TOTAL SCAM I WILL NEVER BOOK A ROOM WITH PRICELINE AGAIN. I AM VERY LEARY OF THEIR SITE NOW. AND THERE CUSTOMER SERVICE. OVER $13.00 I HAVE A VALID POINT AND QUESTION. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? NONE! MY SISTER IN LAW ALSO BOOKED THE SAME ROOM AND SAME PRICE AS ME SO WE BOTH WERE DOOPED. SHE WILL NEVER BOOK WITH YOU AGAIN EITHER. I WILL ALSO BE LEAVING A REVIEW ON LINE SO OTHER PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS CAN BE AWARE AND MAY TAKE THE STEPS TO CALL THE HOTEL TO VERIFY THE INFORMATION ON YOUR SITE. EXTREMELY DISSATISFIED.

Date of experience: March 10, 2014
Ohio
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Beware if you dispute anything with your credit card they will cancel your reservation and take your money... and yes their customer service is horrific and extremely outsourced

Date of experience: March 5, 2014
GB
4 reviews
6 helpful votes
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I like it for the name your own price option, but make sure you review everything before you go forward, because if something changes while your in the bidding process and you don't catch it, your screwed. They will not do anything to help you. So keep this in mind. Other than that it's a good service

Date of experience: March 4, 2014
Ohio
2 reviews
0 helpful votes
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I booked and paid for 3 days at a hotel in Alabama. When my stay was over the hotel slid an invoice under my door. The balance was 0 but the price paid was $50 less than what I paid Priceline.
Priceline "Best Price Guarantee" is not applicable to customer service because "rack rates are not considered for this claim" and I should have called before check-in.
Obviously I could not call before check-in so the "Best Price Guarantee" is for marketing purposes and not meant to be used for legitimate claims.
In my opinion the hotel made a mistake by showing my their price and Priceline gets as much as they can from the customer - guaranteed.

Date of experience: March 4, 2014
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Like so many other disappointed customers, I booked a hotel for 2 nights through the website only to find out that I could have saved myself $60 by booking directly with the hotel. It seems that priceline.com buys up hotel rooms and then sells them to unsuspecting clients for more. I thought priceline would get me a better deal than I could get myself. WRONG!

Date of experience: March 4, 2014
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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First of all, I try to reserve a room/flight online and have issues, when I contact their customer service# I'm told my booking went up by $50 and that's because their travel rates are constantly changing. Ok, fine (even though is was within 5 minutes ago). I receive my credit card statement and I'm charge the higher booking fee and the one that's-$50. I am outraged, I call... come to find out I was booking with a "Online Reservation"company as well as Priceline. How did I book with another travel site, off of Priceline's website? Both travel companies are not allowing me to cancel without charging me fee's, this is total BS!

Date of experience: March 3, 2014
Canada
1 review
1 helpful vote
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BEWARE if you are not in the U.S. We reside in Canada and used Priceline.com to book a CANADIAN hotel. There was no currency type on their website so we assumed the price quoted was in Canadian dollars. The same day that we booked we noticed a charge on our credit card for a higher amount to Priceline. Only when we printed the receipt for the hotel did it indicate U.S. dollars. When we called Priceline we were informed that we were unable to cancel the reservation. We find this very poor customer service, and shoddy business practices. We are now planning a 50 day trip to Europe in the Spring. We will definately NOT be using Priceline.com for any of our plans

Date of experience: March 1, 2014
Illinois
4 reviews
12 helpful votes
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Stay away!
February 27, 2014

Stay away! They are thieves. I booked a hotel room for $189.00 (no discount there!). Three days before my reservation I needed to switch to a different hotel. They would not allow any changes or cancellations. They kept the whole $189.00. Do not use this site. If you have to make any changes you are out of luck.

Date of experience: February 26, 2014
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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They hide information from the customer, I chat with one representative and he gave me the wrong information and the fees shown on the contract were lower than the one the hotel charged me (resort fee) I printed the transcript and offered to fax it to them and they refuse to provide me with a fax number and denied having this chat with me. People stay away from priceline!

Date of experience: February 17, 2014